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Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton ( Latin: Eparchia Neotoniensis Graecorum Melkitarum) is a Melkite Greek Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory of the Catholic Church. The eparchy is named for Newton, Massachusetts, and encompasses the entire United States.
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Who are the Melkites? For a long time the principle of the superiority of the Roman rite, which had become general during the Middle Ages, prevailed in the West. The Latin tradition was considered the only true Catholic tradition, and this led to a certain fixedness among Catholics: the Latin way is the only way!
Today descendants of the Greek community form the Antiochian (Greek) Orthodox and Melkite Greek Catholic Church’s. The Syriac community continues in the Maronite, Syrian Catholic and Syrian Orthodox churches.
St. John Chrysostom Melkite Catholic Church.
The Melkite Greek Catholic Church, [a] or Melkite Byzantine Catholic Church, is an Eastern Catholic church in full communion with the Holy See as part of the worldwide Catholic Church. Its chief pastor is Patriarch Youssef Absi, headquartered at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Dormition in Damascus, Syria.
Jul 21, 2020 · After the death of Bishop Najmy on June 11, 1968, Archbishop Joseph Tawil replaced him as the apostolic exarch of all the Greek Catholic Melkites of the United States, appointed on October 31, 1969 and inducted on May 14, 1970 . Finally, on June 28, 1976, Archbishop Tawil became the first eparch of our Church in the United States.
